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Prairiecare Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$241k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$986kHealth$614kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $161k
$8,160
Median grant
1
States reached
$188k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISD 622$29,520
BECKER PRIMARY SCHOOL$23,800
FARMINGTON AREA SCHOOLS$21,000
CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY S$19,666
BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$16,922
GARDEN CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,107
LORING NICOLLET ALTERNATIVE HIGH SC$10,000
ISD 2905 TRI-CITY UNITED$10,000
BECKER MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
HINCKLEY FINLAYSON SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL$8,429
PRAIRIE WIND MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,160
DELANO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$7,618
ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KALEIDOSCOPE CHARTER SCHOOL: $15k → 5%SEVEN HILLS PREP ACADEMY: $19k → 6%BECKER PRIMARY SCHOOL: $24k → 6%SPRING LAKE PARK DISTRICT: $75k → 7%SIBLEY EAST ELEMENTARY: $18k → 8%AUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50k → 10%OSAKIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 10%RED LAKE SCHOOLS: $21k → 11%FARIBAULT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $14k → 11%BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $17k → 11%PAYNESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27k → 11%ISD 622: $30k → 14%CHANGE THE OUTCOME: $19k → 5%LAKEVILLE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $30k → 6%LE SUEUR-HENDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k → 6%TEUBY CONTINUED: $20k → 7%CHILDHOOD CANCER COMMUNITY: $20k → 9%PAYNESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $19k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $17k → 14%EASTERN CARVER COUNTY SCHOOLS: $39k → 5%PRIOR LAKE-SAVAGE AREA SCHOOLS: $13k → 5%SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $13k → 6%INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST 196: $40k → 6%LE SUEUR-HENDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $23k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $17k → 14%JONATHAN ELEMENTARY: $22k → 5%FARMINGTON AREA SCHOOLS: $21k → 6%PRODEO ACADEMY: $35k → 7%HOPKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $17k → 14%DE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $46k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $17k → 14%FARMINGTON AREA SCHOOLS: $15k → 6%MN ASSOC FOR CHILDREN MENTAL HEALTH: $13k → 14%CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLEN: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLEN: $20k → 11%CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY S: $20k → 14%WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA SCHOOLS: $35k → 14%ST LOUIS PARK SCHOOLS: $32k → 11%WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA SCHOOLS: $15k → 14%SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $19k → 11%SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $19k → 11%AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL: $17k → 11%BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $13k → 11%LAURA JEFFREY ACADEMY: $20k → 14%TRUE NORTH WITH DUGSI ACADEMY: $17k → 11%ROBBINSDALE AREA SCHOOLS: $47k → 11%NORTHEAST COLLEGE PREP: $18k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$642k · 18 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
54

Total granted

$642k
$856k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

22%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213
    2× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +245%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +36%
  • CM
    CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SL
    SPRING LAKE PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • AP
    AUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • RS
    ROBBINSDALE SCHOOLS ISD 281
    one grant, 2022 · $47k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stonebridge World School

Our mission is to create and environment with a global perspective that prepares students to excel academically. Our vision is to develop motivated and principled global citizens for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.

Education
2
Minnesota Transitions Charter School

We are a student-centered learning community that inspires and supports all learners to achieve excellence through equitable, relevant learning experiences.

Education
3
Level Up Academy

By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.

Education
4
Math & Science Academy

We provide accelerated curricula in all subjects with an emphasis on math and science.

Education
5
The World Learner School of Chaska

The World Learner School's mission is to create a school that supports an experiential collaborative learning (Montessori) program that empowers children to unfold their full potential as whole and unique persons in classroom, local and…

Housing & Shelter
6
Arcadia Charter School

It is the mission of arcadia charter school to prepare our students to transition intellectually, emotionally, and ethically to higher education, future employment, and engaged citizenship.

Education
7
Aspen Academy

To provide students with a well-rounded and core knowledge-based education.

Education
8
College Prep Elementary

To prepare scholars to build character and accept of the value of various cultures

Education
9
Woodbury Leadership Academy

The mission of wla is to utilize leadership based programs and strategies grounded in solid research, combined with the demonstrated success of core knowledge curriculum as the basis of a rigorous overall educational program that builds…

Education
10
St Croix Preparatory Academy

SCPA is a public school serving approximately 1,215 students in grades K-12 in Fy 2023-2024. Student retention over a ten year period remains an average of 96% (because the school is a school of parent choice, the Board interpolates a…

Education
11
Crosslake Community School Inc

To grow an environmentally literate, community impacting learners of excellence

Education
12
Modern Montessori Charter School

Modern Montessori Charter School is a collaborative learning community rooted in Montessori principles integrated with current technology through an innovative, child-centered approach.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Excellence in Learning Academy; the most unlike its peers is Childhood Cancer Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPRING LAKE PARK DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherSPRING LAKE PARK DISTRICTNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $68,000 · OtherLE SUEUR-HENDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $52,575 · OtherISD 833 - S WASHINGTON COUNTY: $51,780 · OtherPAYNESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50,656 · OtherWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA SCHOOLS: $50,000 · OtherAUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50,000 · OtherMN ASSOC FOR CHILDREN MENTAL HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherROBBINSDALE SCHOOLS ISD 281: $46,500 · OtherDE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $46,000 · Other+61 more: $813,159 · Other+61 morePRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $45,100 · EducationPRODEO ACADEMY C…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $40,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS…CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $26,271 · EducationCORNERSTONE MONT…LAURA JEFFREY ACADEMY: $19,730 · EducationLAURA JEFFREY AC…TWIN CITIES ACADEMY: $18,000 · EducationTWIN CITIES ACAD…Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219: $17,987 · EducationNortheast Colleg…AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL: $17,000 · EducationAURORA CHARTER S…Kaleidoscope Charter School No 4118: $15,006 · EducationKaleidoscope Cha…ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL: $10,789 · EducationNEW DISCOVERIES MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $8,900 · Education+6 more: $32,453 · Education+6 more2B CONTINUED: $20,000 · HealthCHILDHOOD CANCER COMMUNITY: $20,000 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthWashburn Center for Children: $8,063 · HealthChange the Outcome: $18,943 · Public Benefit
Other$1,353,670Education$251,236Health$68,063Public Benefit$18,943

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $45,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $26,271 over 2y, 0.7% of budget2B CONTINUED: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCHILDHOOD CANCER COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAURA JEFFREY ACADEMY: $19,730 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChange the Outcome: $18,943 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES ACADEMY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast College Prep Charter School No 4219: $17,987 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAURORA CHARTER SCHOOL: $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKaleidoscope Charter School No 4118: $15,006 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL CITY SCHOOL: $10,789 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DISCOVERIES MONTESSORI ACADEMY: $8,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $8,063 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSage Academy Charter School Charter School No 4087: $6,141 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP Minnesota: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCologne Academy: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING ACADEMY: $5,012 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds 2B CONTINUED ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHOOD CANCER COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAURA JEFFREY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Change the Outcome ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219 ↗
  • Who funds AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Kaleidoscope Charter School No 4118 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Minnesota State High …Saint Paul & Minnesot…Tickets for Kids Foun…For Inspiration and R…Think SmallWem FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Richard M Schulze…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN19× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota State High School League Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Tickets for Kids Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Think Small · Wem Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Prairiecare Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prairiecare Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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